Childcare Apprenticeships

Inspire Cornwall C.I.C. has for the last 2 years been offering revolutionary childcare training at many nurseries across Cornwall. In an ever changing market place, we have managed to provide flexible high quality training for those working with our children. This year we were nominated in the Voluntary Sector Forum’s Delivering Learning in the Community and we received….

Our aim is to work towards a wholesale change in the way the people are trained in caring for children in their earliest years. Collaboration and an integrative approach with nurseries, and understanding how they are run, will help us to our goal of excellence in this field of work.

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I took a Dads’ Pack to a new birth FNP visit. The dad was 15 years old and had felt quite excluded through much of the pregnancy, I knew he was going to be there today and really wanted him to feel special too.
Well he was taken aback at first that he was given something and took great pride in discovering what was in the bag. At the same time we were getting baby ready for weighing, he stepped…

Cara SaatiFamily Nurse Partnership

A group where we could chat to other dads was good, looking at their worries and concerns to see if they matched yours.”

18 year old dad of two

I think getting some parenting skills is great. A hands-on session looking at what needs to be done is ideal. I would love to be more involved. It is great to be able recommend to my wife the type of bottle my son could use amongst other things”

22 year old father of one

A great course, run by a bloke who is also a dad that included changing nappies, emergency first aid, the temperature of bottles.”

19 year old father of one

I went to ante-natal classes. I felt a bit awkward; I didn’t want to speak up because I thought they would laugh at me. With other dads, my age I felt I could talk about what worried me and through doing the course could go home and get involved properly.”

23 year old father of one and father to be

I think a load of men together having a laugh, you don’t feel so out of place. Laughs aside, I think it shows your partner that you’re taking it seriously, and I know so much more now.”